Call for Book Proposals: Cinema Aesthetics

Since the seventies, many academics and teachers have been taking the study of film out of Film Studies by producing curricula and critical literature hostile to notions of artistic endeavour and aesthetic value. An old heresy is a new orthodoxy and the argument that the cinema exists solely to illustrate the politics of culture, identity, and pleasure is no longer an argument; it is now a 'core doctrine' of film education, particularly in the UK and the US. The Cinema Aesthetics series aims to challenge this orthodoxy by publishing visually literate and intellectually creative studies that explore an aesthetic term, critical category, or interdisciplinary issue associated with the art of film.

The series is being published by Manchester University Press and it will offer students, teachers, practitioners, and general readers a range of short, accessible and inexpensive primers on the cinema. Each book will be approx. 30,000 words in length and will include still images and bibliographical references. Forthcoming and recently commissioned titles include: Montage, The Shot, Colour, Time, and Experimental Film.

The series editors would welcome proposals (1,000 words) sympathetic to the aims of this series.

Sam Rohdie: srohdie@bellsouth.net
Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Central Florida

Des O'Rawe: d.orawe@qub.ac.uk
Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen's University Belfast